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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

254- How to Properly Understand a Business When Investing

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Investing, Business

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week on InvestED, Phil and Danielle continue their discussion on checklists diving into the letter “U” of the “RULES” acronym representing thoroughly understanding a business before investing. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is still town and this is

0:06.4

still town and this is Danielle town welcome to the invested

0:09.6

podcast where we're learning how to invest the best way you can do it the way that will let you

0:18.0

have I was going to say my my favorite new catchphrase. Okay.

0:23.0

Take heart!

0:27.4

Take heart.

0:27.5

Take heart and focus on an investing strategy

0:32.3

used by the best investors in the world who are include

0:36.2

Warren Buffett Charlie Munger people who are consistently making well above 15%

0:41.9

per year.

0:43.3

Commonly in a range of 20% per year are bigger

0:46.5

for 20, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years,

0:50.6

which can make you very, very wealthy. And they're doing this with less risk

0:56.3

than you're taking in your mutual fund.

0:58.3

They have an actual beta on their stocks

1:02.1

that they've invested in.

1:03.0

This was discovered by Burton Malkil at Princeton,

1:07.0

that Buffett's beta, his risk-adjusted portfolio

1:11.0

was lower risk than the S&P 500 index and your mutual fund is

1:17.3

mimicking that at best. So here you got a guy who's making 20% per year or more for 60 years with lower risk

1:27.5

according to efficient market theory than an index than what you're taking.

1:32.3

Where's that for I haven't heard that before? an index than what you're taking.

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